The Telegraph UK: Barack Obama’s credibility hits rock bottom

Toby Harnden: “Central to Obama’s appeal was his promise to be truly different. His failure to achieve that is now at the core of the deep disappointment Americans feel about him.”

Feign surprise that the political novice who went completely unvetted by the Legacy Media; the man whom entire years of his youth are unaccounted for; the man who won’t release a single record of his scholastic record (like, how he [or someone else] paid for college and law school); feign surprise that people are now disappointed that Obama isn’t everything he promised to be and everything they wanted them to be:

His approach to the issue was that of the law student suddenly fascinated by a science project. He displayed none of the visceral indignation Americans feel about pretty much everything these days – two-thirds now say they are “angry” about the way things are going – resorting instead to Spock-like technocratic language and legalese. “I’m not contradicting my prior point,” he stated at one juncture. During those 63 minutes of soporific verbosity, about 800 barrels of oil poured into the Gulf.

Obama engaged in the obligatory populist bashing of Big Oil and, of course, demonstrated the Obama administration’s version of Tourette’s Syndrome, blaming the previous administration for the situation when, by my reckoning, it’s a full 16 months since Bush left office.

Ouch.